Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
Partner Strategy and Ecosystem Leadership
Define and execute the cybersecurity partner and alliance strategy aligned to the overall offerings roadmap and engineering priorities.
Identify, prioritize, and manage strategic security technology partners that complement the services portfolio.
Develop joint value propositions and standardized solution patterns with each strategic partner to support enterprise client requirements.
Offering and Solution Development
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and product managers to shape modular and scalable cybersecurity offerings that incorporate partner technology.
Translate partner capabilities and roadmaps into concrete service blueprints, reference architectures, and delivery models.
Ensure offerings are technically feasible, supportable at scale, and aligned to financial and delivery targets.
Alliance Governance, SLAs, and MSAs
Own the governance model for the Cyber Intelligence organizationās alliances, including SLAs, MSAs, support models, and operational requirements.
Partner with legal, finance, and delivery teams to negotiate and maintain terms that support reliability, availability, and support for joint solutions.
Monitor performance against SLAs and coordinate corrective actions when necessary.Ā
Facilitate regular business reviews with partners to evaluate KPIs, pipeline, and delivery performance.
Sales Plays, Pipeline Generation, and Funding
Develop and refine sales plays that connect partner technology, services, and customer outcomes.
Collaborate with sales, solution architects, and marketing to help create go-to-market assets such as pitch decks, battlecards, case studies, and value propositions.
Own the strategy and execution of partner funding, including forecasting, proposal creation, approvals, and tracking of outcomes.
Track and report partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline and bookings, and support activities to accelerate opportunity progression.
Training, Certifications, and Enablement
Define certification and enablement requirements for engineering, delivery, sales, and architecture teams across the Cyber Intelligence organizationās strategic partners.
Create and maintain a structured training plan, including bootcamps, hands-on labs, and defined learning paths.
Track certification achievement and skill development to ensure compliance with partner program requirements.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Serve as a liaison between engineering, product management, delivery, sales, marketing, and partner account teams to ensure alignment and execution.
Help support complex client pursuits as the alliance subject matter expert, guiding solution development and commercial constructs.
Work with operational and finance teams to ensure scalable processes, accurate forecasting, and margin management for partner-related offerings.
Market, Competitive, and Program Intelligence
Monitor competitive alliance strategies, partner program updates, and changes in the security technology landscape.
Provide insight and recommendations to internal stakeholders on emerging opportunities and program enhancements.
Stay current on partner product roadmaps and releases across all cybersecurity domains, including new features and capabilities, and communicate relevant impacts to offerings, sales plays, and delivery teams.
Incorporate partner and market insights into the Offerings roadmap and engineering backlog.
Operational Excellence and Reporting
Key Performance Indicators
Partner/offering pipeline growth.
Partner-sourced or influenced pipeline contributions.
Utilization and return on investment of partner funding.
Cross-functional go-to-market initiatives.
Training and certification coverage across key roles.
Satisfaction of internal stakeholders and partner teams.
Core Skills
Strong understanding of cybersecurity technologies including cloud security, identity and access management, zero trust, endpoint security, SIEM, and data protection.
Experience working within major security vendor partner programs, including competency requirements and incentives.
Knowledge of managed security services, consulting-led offerings, and modular service architectures.
Understanding of commercial constructs including SLAs, MSAs, statements of work, pricing models, and partner rebate structures.
Proficiency with SFDC, Power BI, and partner portals for tracking performance metrics.
Analytical and Business Skills
Ability to build business cases for joint investments, funding proposals, and new partner-led offerings.
Financial acumen related to revenue, margin, and profitability.
Experience using analytics and reporting tools to support strategic decisions.
Ability to segment partner and customer opportunities by industry, use case, and solution category.
Leadership, Communication, and Collaboration Skills
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